Disability, Human Rights and the Limits of Humanitarianism

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Contemporary human rights discourses problematically co-opt disabled bodies as 'evidence' of harms done under capitalism, war, and other forms of conflict, while humanitarian non-governmental organizations often use disabled bodies to generate resources for their humanitarian projects. It is the connection between civil rights and human rights, and the concomitant relationship between national and global, which foregrounds this book's contention that disability studies productively challenge such human rights paradigms, which troublingly eschew disability rights in favor of exclusionary humani.  Read more... Contents: Introduction; The promise of human rights for disabled people and the reality of neoliberalism, Mark Sherry; The new humanitarianism: neoliberalism, poverty, and the creation of disability, Maria Berghs; Media, disability, and human rights, Armineh Soorenian; Volunteering as tribute: disability, globalization and The Hunger Games, Anna Mae Duane; Structural and cultural rights in Australian disability employment policy, Sarah Parker Harris, Randall Owen and Karen Fisher; Disability in humanitarian emergencies in India: towards and inclusive approach, Vanmala Hiranandani; Monitoring disability: the question of the 'human' in human rights projects, Tanya Titchkosky; Specter of vulnerability and bodies in protest, Eunjung Kim; persons with disabilities in international humanitarian law: paternalism, protectionism, or rights? , Janet Lord; United Nations policy and the intersex community, Ethan Levine; HIV/AIDS, disability, and socio-economic rights in South Africa, Lydia Apon Strehlau; The overrepresentation of Black children in special education as human rights violation, Jennifer Bronson; Becoming disabled: toward the political anatomy of the body, Nirmala Erevelles; Index.